Reviews
Aloha Radio Hawaii
A Chinese label recording vintage Hawaiian music in an ultra-modern California studio, with mostly non-native musicians? Go figure. But despite...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
Cocktail d’Amour
Every couple of years there surfaces a new and often surprising instance of Robert Crumb’s enduring forays into amateur music-making....
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Bending the Dark
Here is music that illustrates how all culture begins as an idea in the human mind. The third Imagined Village...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012
Cut it Down, Count the Rings
Copper Viper's PR describes them as ‘an acoustic folk group from London,’ which isn't wrong but you could certainly be...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019
The Vienna Tapes
In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Rey de Mi Folclor Vallenato y Cumbia Colombiana
Ever since Carlos Vives turned to the style in the early 90s, vallenato reinstated itself as one of Colombia's most-cherished...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020
Les Habits de Papier
Despite some contemporary harmonisation, a few dressy syncopations, and a surprise visit by slide guitar, this young Quebecois trio don't...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
In the Kingdom of Dub
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77
Having paid his producer's dues from acid jazz groups through to Gregory Isaacs and the Sugarhill Gang, Mike Pelanconi's alter-ego...
Reviewed by Michael Brown in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Rise Aurora
This debut album from the Sussex folk singer Rosie Hodgson is the culmination of much time on the English folk...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2017
